Bj’s Wholesale Club

I love going to BJs to get stocked up. Meat, laundry soap, storage bags, school snacks, and drinks are my picks when I visit. Also, the gas prices are incredible! The store is clean and fully stocked. My only negative is some of the sample people are a little too pushy.

This is a great wholesale club. Been going here from a few years now. They always have great stuff and great prices. Service bay is a little on the slow side, but they do good work. Gas station always has the best prices in the state. In some cases by 10 – 15 cents per gallon.

This place has got everything. Seriously. They have everything.

Wholesale clubs are not generally all that sexy. But, BJ’s in the Centre of New England is clean, well stocked, and provides good quality products.

My go to place for all my bulky needs. While I go to the Johnston, RI BJ’s that’s close to my work place and more convenient if I need to pick up a giant roll of toilet paper or paper towels. However, this club appears to be bigger and is expanding based on the amount of construction going around in the club at the time of this writing.
A big one-​up that this place has over the other BJ’s is the gas they offer here which arguably is the cheapest I can find usually in all of RI. Plus a full auto shop and inside a plaza with a Home Depot and a Walmart. You can expect to get all your shopping done here and the other places for your one or two small items that you need.
Definitely a one stop shop and easy to get to as it’s right off I-​95. Oh and on some days like the summer there’s a Del’s truck that’s right across the street from BJ’s if you have the burning need for some of that frozen goodness!

I used to think that only a select clientele came here when I was younger and would go with a friend. The people aren’t any better than the people that go to any other stores you don’t have to pay a fee to buy from. Whatever. I was young dumb and you know the story.
This store isn’t good with stocking. You can’t depend on it having what it is suppose to carry. I find the store in Middletown much better with a more extensive selection than this store. I assume because this store is in the Devil’s Triangle of Consumer Evil, i.e. Centre of New England Boulevard, that it has way too many consumers buying them out of their goods. (Any place, store or whatever that pretentiously spells words with a foreign spelling to make it look like it is better than it is is guilty of trying to use it’s own name to use as a selling point or as an attraction device and should be fined everyday for the sake of demonstrating how pompous and unnecessary this practice is. I digress.)
Middletown doesn’t have the gas pumps though and is on Aquidneck Island. Who wants to spend toll money to go to a store you have to pay money to shop at? No sense I say.
The «bargains» are not always bargains so shop smart. Every now and then they have «specials sails» where everyone crowds around to get something free like a flashlight for listening to some sales spiel for a product that really no one needs. The coupons are alright. You have to pay attention to their dates though so look close. I like that they have self check outs now. The lines go faster and you can get help easier.

BJ’S are usually — USUALLY — pretty good and all pretty much the same in the same area. Especially when it comes to the basics… and I means basics. I don’t need 82 rolls of Bounty or enough Charmin to keep me comfy in the bathroom until 2019, but what I DO want is my case of Diet Coke. Because, after all, I believe Diet Coke is the best-​selling soda on the planet?
This BJ’s had the case (24 20oz bottles) all year up until a few months ago. I asked about it at «customer service» and they had no clue. I e-​mailed BJ’s customer service, and actually got a pretty quick response and they said that the Coventry warehouse most definitely still carried it. Um, OK.
Back three more times for my «fix» (I don’t drink coffee or smoke, so we all need our thing, right?), and no Diet Coke. None, zilch, zip, nada. I’ll get it at another warehouse location…